A Craniotomy Surgery Procedure for Chronic Brain Imaging

A craniotomy surgery procedure for chronic brain imaging.

Imaging techniques are becoming increasingly important in the study brain function. Among them, two-photon laser scanning microscopy has emerged as an extremely useful method, because it allows the study of the live intact brain. With appropriate preparations, this technique allows the observation of the same cortical area chronically, from minutes to months. In this video, we show a preparatio...

Control of emergence hypertension after craniotomy for brain tumor surgery.

OBJECTIVE To compare the anti-hypertensive effects of both remifentanil and esmolol infusion. METHODS This prospective comparative study was conducted on 20 patients (10 patients in each group), in the Neurosurgical Theater of Kasr Elaini Hospital, Cairo, Egypt from 2006 to 2008. The patients were divided into 2 equal groups. In group one, remifentanil was used as a bolus of one ug/kg intrave...

Iranian Brain Imaging Database: A Neuropsychiatric Database of Healthy Brain

Introduction: The Iranian Brain Imaging Database (IBID) was initiated in 2017, with 5 major goals: provide researchers easy access to a neuroimaging database, provide normative quantitative measures of the brain for clinical research purposes, study the aging profile of the brain, examine the association of brain structure and function, and join the ENIGMA consortium. Many prestigious databases...

Bifrontal decompressive craniotomy for malignant brain edema.

OBJECTIVE To review the outcome of bifrontal decompressive craniotomy used for the treatment of malignant brain edema due to different etiologies. METHODS The study was carried out at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the period from January 2000 to June 2005, and included all patients who had malignant brain edema due to different etiology and were treat...

Awake Craniotomy in Glioma Surgery